netdev - Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support

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Message-Id: <1217456666.18911.145.camel@calx>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:24:26 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:35 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> This change means you can't configure nearly all of the features on
> your ethernet card.  You can't even configure the link parameters
> without ethtool support.

Which is big fat don't-care for the vast majority of users. Various
popular distros don't even install the tool by default.

Embedded devices care even less. You'd be fairly hard-pressed to find,
say, a BluRay player that lets you set the link duplex and checksum
offloading somewhere deep deep down in the setup menu. And good luck
trying to do that -over the wire- to a headless device. Unless the
device is a serious router, you're -never- going to see anyone go to the
trouble of exporting such functionality.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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